UN experts warn continued Israeli ceasefire violations in Gaza undermine the fragile truce
Palestinians inspect the damage to a house targeted by an Israeli strike in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, November 22, 2025UNITED NATIONS experts have demanded action by the international community to end Israel’s violations of the Gaza ceasefire.
They warned on Monday that continuing attacks on Palestinians in Gaza threaten to derail the fragile truce.
The UN rapporteurs said in a statement that since the ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian resistance group Hamas took effect on October 10, Israeli forces have committed at least 393 violations, killing 339 Palestinians, including over 70 children and injuring more than 870.
A massive Israeli air attack on October 28, which killed at least 104 Palestinians, made it the deadliest night since the truce officially began, the experts said.
The 20 experts who signed the statement include Francesca Albanese, special rapporteur on Palestine, George Katrougalos, independent expert on the the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, and Ashwini KP, special rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.
The signatories warned that despite the ceasefire, humanitarian access remains critically limited, with only two of six crossings open, aid deliveries far beneath the agreed targets and hospitals in desperate need of supplies and equipment.
The experts said: “The ongoing Israeli attacks against the Palestinian population in Gaza constitute a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement.”
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There is no ceasefire, but there is an ongoing Nakba and an ongoing genocide
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A news report by AlJazeera this week stated that Israel violated the ceasefire 497 times in 44 days since 10 October. Lauded by the international community, the ceasefire was supposed to bring an end to airstrikes, starvation and allow the delivery of humanitarian aid, as well as the return of Palestinians to the rubble of their homes in Gaza. But ceasefire in diplomatic rhetoric falls even short of a veneer as Israel continues its genocide with a slower pace.
Israel can further violate the ceasefire with UN Resolution 2803, which places the US in control of Gaza for Israel’s colonial expansionist plans. Israel – a genocidal entity that has violated the ceasefire hundreds of times – determines the coordination of the US plan. Which means that as a reward for committing genocide, Israel gets the freedom to determine the pace of genocide, now that the worst has been normalised.
Even mainstream media is reporting on Israel’s ceasefire violations. Two weeks ago, the BBC noted that Israel destroyed over 1,500 buildings in Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect, although it also made sure to add the comments of an unnamed Israeli military spokesperson saying that Israel was acting “in accordance with the ceasefire framework”.
According to the US, there was no genocide in Gaza. According to the Palestinian people and the majority of the world’s people, there is genocide in Gaza and there is no ceasefire in Gaza. What term does one coin for a non-existent ceasefire? Or a ceasefire that only exists in diplomatic agreements that provide impunity for Israel’s genocide?
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What will the non-existent ceasefire mean in terms of Gaza’s reconstruction and military occupation amid a normalised, slow-paced genocide? There is talk of partitioning Gaza, but the likelihood of colonial expansion is even greater. And all is happening under the guise of a ceasefire with no validity and no implementation.
The only time we should be uttering the word ceasefire is to point out that there is no ceasefire. Other than that, the entire world should be pointing out that Israel is continuing its colonial expansion through genocide. Ceasefire rhetoric is an imposition upon Palestinians. It renders them defenceless just as much as the genocide did. The Israeli military now controls 53 per cent of Gaza. What did Zionist leaders do when they were granted 55 per cent of Palestine? History is repeating itself and the international community is concealing evident links under ceasefire rhetoric.
As the international community does its best to fade Israel’s genocide into oblivion, so will Gaza be depleted. The UN will continue with its statistical data, possibly since the “ceasefire”, thus marking an end to what is actually a continuation. And the usual terminology, linked to the non-existent ceasefire, such as humanitarian aid, food, displacement, education, Israel killing Palestinians, will once again be classified as individual violations of international law, instead of actions contributing to an ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land. The ceasefire does not exist, the Nakba never ended, and it is incumbent upon the UN, particularly given its complicity with colonialism, to join the dots for the rest of the world and finally divulge what a travesty it has created out of human rights and international law.
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Dozens of tents for displaced Palestinians flooded by heavy rains in southern Gaza
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Heavy rains have submerged dozens of tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip amid bad weather conditions in the enclave, witnesses said Tuesday.
Several tents were destroyed by rainfall in al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, while others were blown away by strong winds in the area, they told Anadolu.
“The situation in the city is extremely catastrophic due to the destruction of most roads, water, and sewage networks by the Israeli war,” Saib Luqan, a spokesman for Khan Younis Municipality, told Anadolu.
According to local authorities, the Israeli army has destroyed 220,000 linear meters of road networks over the past two years.
Nearly 900,000 people in Khan Younis are currently facing “tragic and grim” conditions due to bad weather conditions, Luqan said.
The spokesman added that municipal teams are working with insufficient equipment to help displaced civilians affected by the bad weather.
According to the Gaza Government Media Office, 1.5 million Palestinians are displaced in Gaza, living in catastrophic conditions with little access to basic necessities and severely limited essential services due to Israel’s ongoing blockade.
Since October 2023, the Israeli army has killed nearly 70,000 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, and injured more than 170,900 people in the two-year war that has left much of the enclave in ruins.
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Lebanon faces ‘war of attrition,’ prepares for possible Israeli escalation, prime minister says
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Lebanon faces a “war of attribution,” Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Tuesday, calling for taking all necessary precautions to confront any potential Israeli escalation, Anadolu reports.
“We are in a war whose pace is escalating and has taken the form of a one-sided war of attrition by Israel,” Salam told a press conference following an inspection visit to Beirut Port.
“We will work to mobilize more Arab and international support to stop these attacks and push for an Israeli withdrawal,” he added in his comments cited by the state news agency NNA.
On Sunday, five people were killed and 28 others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting senior Hezbollah commander Haitham Tabatabai in southern Beirut.
Tensions in southern Lebanon have been mounting for weeks, with the Israeli military intensifying near-daily air raids inside Lebanese territory, claiming to target Hezbollah members and infrastructure.
According to the Lebanese Health Ministry, at least 331 people have been killed and 945 injured by Israeli fire since a ceasefire deal took effect on Nov. 27, 2024.
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– Beirut Port
Salam described Beirut Port as “the memory and future of the city.”
The government “is working for Lebanon’s economic recovery, and a key pillar of that is developing and modernizing Beirut Port,” he said.
“Our priority is to place Lebanon and Beirut Port on the map of transportation routes in the Levant.”
Salam said he reached an agreement with the World Bank last week to prepare a study on transportation links between Lebanon and the surrounding region, covering seaports, airports, and land routes.
Lebanon’s railway sector has been entirely inactive since the country’s civil war of the 1970s and 1980s, despite once serving as a vital network connecting coastal and inland cities and facilitating trade and travel.
Five years after the port explosion, large sections of Beirut Port remain abandoned rubble.
The August 2020 blast killed more than 220 people and injured 7,000. Judicial investigations into its causes and responsibility have yet to be concluded.
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